COVID-19: Death Data in England – Update 8th May

NHS England releases data at 2 pm each day and reports daily count up to the previous day as well as a total figure. We wrote about the problems with reconciling the different data here:

Today’s reported figure is 332 deaths in hospitals in England. These deaths are distributed back to the 11th of March: 249 (75%) of the deaths were in the last week, and 83 (25%) occurred more than 7 days ago.

For comparison: the reported deaths in hospitals in England on the same weekday 1, 2 and 3 weeks ago were:

Consistent with previous analyses, the peak day of deaths was the 8th of April. The deaths are distributed across the following days:

By setting:

By region:

By age:

The reporting of deaths by NHS England underestimate those reported by the Office for National Statistics – One reason for this is NHS England’s data does not include deaths reported outside hospitals.

Daily reports generally add more to the previous two days (up to a maximum 300 deaths), and can add back to the previous week’s counts (the grey shaded area in figure 2).